January 14, 2025
A Missouri federal judge should have let an arbitration board decide whether a wrongfully fired railroad conductor qualified for paid vacation time after his reinstatement, the Eighth Circuit said Tuesday, reversing the judge's decision that the worker qualified and remanding the issue to the arbitration board.
February 12, 2024
Kansas City Southern Railway Co. is fighting a court order requiring it to fully reimburse a wrongfully fired employee for five years of lost pay and benefits, telling the Eighth Circuit on Monday that its question about whether the payout should account for lost vacation time belongs before an arbitrator.
January 19, 2024
Kansas City Southern Railway Co. should comply with an order requiring it to fully reimburse a wrongfully fired worker for five years of lost pay and benefits, a transportation workers union told the Eighth Circuit on Friday, looking to end the railroad's challenge to the back pay amount.